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Show Ward Completes Summer Building Project to Raise Fund for Church the transportation and other phases of the moving. Even the women helped on occasion, meeting the workmen on the job with cookies and punch, and the young boys did their part by picking up nails and loose boards. More than one ward member mentioned how the building project has united the ward and helped members get better acquainted as they all worked toward a common goal . Much of the work was done during the strike by ward members who might otherwise have had nothing with which to occupy their time. In addition to moving the buildings, the ward took on a project of moving a number num-ber of mink pens belonging to a ward member, Maeser Young who was happy to ge the work done by such a large crew in so short a time. Largest Project The largest undertaking in An exhibition of the cooperative cooper-ative spirit of the early pioneers pio-neers was seen this week, when the Springville Twelfth ward turned over the last of a building build-ing project in which they have engaged the past six months, to raise a portion of their new chapel building fund. On July 5, the ward undertook under-took to move the North buildings build-ings from the BYU Campus, having been given the buildings providing they were moved within two weeks. At that time, it was not known just how or when they could dispose dis-pose of them, but as many as 80 men turned out some days and with the aid of equipment belonging to ward members, the buildings were moved and sold. The long barracks-like buildings build-ings were cut into 22 sections, 43 by 25 feet. One crew of men cut, another jacked the buildings build-ings up; another supervised connection with the ward project pro-ject was the building of the huge chicken coop, measuring approximately 43 by 175 feet, on the property of J. Marvin Curtis, 1996 South 4th East. With a capacity of between 4000 and 5000 hens, the coop is one of the largest in Utah county. Several of the "Y" buildings were used in building build-ing the coop, which has tile walls, a cement floor and every ev-ery modern convenience pos-(Continued pos-(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) I - 1 r-1 L HA H in i ml Members of the 12th ward Saturday nailed the last few boards on a huge chicken coop which they built for Marvin J. Curtis at 1096 South, Fourth East, as a fund raising project for their new church. The coop marked the completion of a fund-raising building project, in which practically every man of the ward participated. Included in the project was the moving of a number of buildings from the BYU campus. Ward Completes Summer Project of the ward, which is already planning new projects to raise more funds for their new church building. (Continued from Page 1) sible in the present-day egg producing industry. Practically every man in the ward has given a hand in building the coop or in some other part of the ward's building build-ing program. Some have put in as many as 200 or more hours since the project began last July. Machinery and various pieces of equipment to use in the building program has been donated. Even men not members mem-bers of the ward, have assisted assist-ed with some of the more technical tech-nical parts of the work. Now and in the years to come members of the ward can point with pride to the homes and other buildings which have been built the past few months through the cooperative effort |